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[Asrg] 6. Proposals - DNS + PKI - Yahoo's "Domain Keys"

2003-12-06 18:32:25
[Subject was "Re: [Asrg] 0. General - Yahoo proposes new Internet anti-spam structure", changed as per posting guidelines. Mod.]

Hector Santos wrote:
> FYI,
>
> http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2003-12-05-yahoo-spam-switch_x.htm
>
> --Hector
>

Thanks Hector for the link, this story has already been mentioned in a few other places as well.

The basic thrust of this proposal is that the sending domain will have a public key stored in DNS, and sign every email from that domain with the private key. The receiver can check validity by getting the public key from DNS, and verifying the digital signature. Same purpose as LMAP, but via PKI.

Yakov


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Yakov Shafranovich / asrg <at> shaftek.org
SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc. / research <at> solidmatrix.com
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" (Lord Acton)
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